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Quotes about preachers and preach
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Preaching is to much avail, but practice is far more effective. A godly life is the strongest argument you can offer the skeptic. (Cook Eliza)
If you think practicing what you preach is rough, just try preaching what you practice. (Cook Eliza)
I preached as never sure to preach again, and as a dying man to dying men. (Cook Eliza)
The clergyman is expected to be a kind of human Sunday. (Cook Eliza)
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The world looks at preachers out of church to know what they mean in it. (Cook Eliza)
He preaches well that lives well. (Cook Eliza)
Sermons remain one of the last forms of public discourse where it is culturally forbidden to talk back. (Cook Eliza)
Preaching is the expression of moral sentiments applied to the duties of life. (Cook Eliza)
The good rain, like a bad preacher, does not know when to leave off. (Cook Eliza)
Every accent, every emphasis, every modulation of voice, was so perfectly well turned and well placed, that, without being interested in the subject, one could not help being pleased with the discourse; a pleasure of much the same kind with that received from an excellent piece of music. This is an advantage itinerant preachers have over those who are stationary, as the latter can not well improve their delivery of a sermon by so many rehearsals. (Cook Eliza)
A man who is good enough to go to heaven is not good enough to be a clergyman. (Cook Eliza)
Go into the street, and give one man a lecture on morality, and another a shilling, and see which will respect you most. (Cook Eliza)
Preaching is heady wine. It is pleasant to tell people where they get off. (Cook Eliza)
Some plague the people with too long sermons; for the faculty of listening is a tender thing, and soon becomes weary and satiated. (Cook Eliza)
Preach in the name of God. The learned will smile; ask the learned what they have done for their country. The priests will excommunicate you; say to the priests that you know God better than all of them together do, and that between God and His law you have no need of any intermediary. The people will understand you, and repeat with you: We believe in God the Father, who is Intelligence and Love, Creator and Teacher of Humanity. And in this saying you and the People will conquer. (Cook Eliza)
One filled with joy preaches without preaching. (Cook Eliza)
The Christian ministry is the worst of all trades, but the best of all professions. (Cook Eliza)
If the truth were known, many sermons are prepared and preached with more regard for the sermon than the souls of the hearers. (Cook Eliza)
There are three things that can destroy a preacher, the glory, the gold, and the girls. (Cook Eliza)
The worst behaved students turn out to be the most pious preachers. (Cook Eliza)
One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than fifty preaching it. (Cook Eliza)
I just wanted to be an ordinary parish priest. (Cook Eliza)
To preach long, loud, and Damnation, is the way to be cried up. We love a man that damns us, and we run after him again to save us. (Cook Eliza)
But, good my brother, do not, as some ungracious pastors do. Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven whilst like a puffed and reckless libertine himself the primrose path of dalliance treads and wrecks not his own. (Cook Eliza)
That we should practice what we preach is generally admitted; but anyone who preaches what he and his hearers practice must incur the gravest moral disapprobation. (Cook Eliza)
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